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• Saturn's rings are surprisingly young

  January 17, 2019 / Chelsea Gohd / Astronomy - According to a new study, scientists have found that Saturn’s rings are actually much younger than the planet itself

• Carbonate mud deposited below storm wave base: A critical review

  January 16, 2019 / Lauren P. Birgenheier and Shawn A. Moore/ The Sedimentary Record - Going beyond the “settling from suspension" models

• Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

  January 10, 2019 / Evolution News & Science Today

• Conserved transcriptomic profiles underpin monogamy across vertebrates

  January 7, 2019 / Rebecca L. Young, et al. / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813775116 - Common descent or common design?

• Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%

  January 3, 2019 / Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Science Daily

• Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs

  December 17, 2018 / Michael Le Page / New Scientist - two spectacular fossils found in China show that the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs had primitive feathers to help keep them warm, just like many dinosaurs.

• Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur

  December 5, 2018 / J. Lindgren et al. / Nature - a new example of exceptional preservation of soft tissue from fossil material

• Bracketing phenogenotypic limits of mammalian hybridization

  November 30, 2018 / Y. Savriama et al. / Royal Society Open Science - There is considerable potential for mammalian hybridization between phenotypically disparate taxa.

• Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes

  November 14, 2018 / G. Lax et al. / Nature - Phylogenomic analyses place Hemimastigophora outside of all established eukaryote supergroups.

• The not-so-dangerous lives of Neanderthals

  November 14, 2018 / Marta Mirazón Lahr / Nature - In spite of what its title suggests, the actual point of this study is that the lives of Neanderthals were at least AS dangerous as those of other populations.

• DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one

  November 9, 2018 / Ryan F. Mandelbaum / Gizmodo - warblers appear to be reproductively compatible in spite of alleged millions of years of independent evolution

• Paleolithic cave art in Borneo

  November 7, 2018 / M. Aubert et al. / Nature - reports on presumed oldest figurative artwork from anywhere in the world

• Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a galaxy of planets

  October 25, 2018 / Calla Cofield, Pat Brennan, and Alison Hawkes / NASA - some of the planets thought to be of a size and temperature similar to Earth's are really bigger – and usually, hotter

• Oldest fossils or just rocks? Scientists at odds over 3.7 billion-year-old structures.

  October 17, 2018 / Joel Achenbach / Washington Post - Putative stromatolitic structures previously described as Earth's earliest fossils are not relics of microbial mats but are formed through geological processes

• Extinction: When evolution is suddenly found to have a purpose

  October 17, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Oldest evidence for animals found at 635 mya

  October 16, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• The quantum world remains weird: Remembering the doomed “pilot wave”

  October 16, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Life forms display an “optimal tradeoff between stability and instability”

  October 16, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Should scientists take a “Hippocratic”-style oath, to reduce dishonesty?

  October 16, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Co-author: Hawking’s last paper left the information paradox unresolved

  October 15, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Cell behaviour can show “purposeful inefficiency”? What next?

  October 15, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Science writer: Academia is in meltdown

  October 15, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Nuclear physicist: True quantum magic only starts with multiple particles

  October 15, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Move over Mother Theresa! Wild chimps sometimes share food with others

  October 14, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Science as tourist studies among the hunter-gatherers

  October 14, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Museum director: “Darwin’s theory of evolution not only underpins all biological science, it has an immense predictive power.”

  October 14, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Jonathan Bartlett: The spiritual side of a digital society

  October 14, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Michael Egnor: Does your brain construct your conscious reality?

  October 13, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Michael Egnor: Does brain stimulation research challenge free will?

  October 13, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Jay Richards: A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind

  October 13, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Fossil Discontinuities: A Refutation of Darwinism and Confirmation of Intelligent Design

  October 13, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• ID-related posts deleted from friendly Facebook pages as spam

  October 13, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Organisms found that hover indefinitely between life and death

  October 12, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Cosmologist: String theory is incompatible with dark energy

  October 12, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Rob Sheldon on why so many sciences seem to be devolving -- not just social sciences

  October 12, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Social sciences: The war on empirical fact and objectivity

  October 12, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• New Scientist: Monkeys “look like” they are domesticating wolves

  October 11, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Stephen Hawking’s final paper, just released, tackled the “information paradox”

  October 11, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Rob Sheldon on the failure of selfish gene theory and peacocks, as well as bees

  October 11, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: The selfish gene does not drive cooperation after all

  October 11, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Why does more gender equality lead to fewer women in science?

  October 10, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Podcast: Winston Ewert on the Dependency Graph vs. Darwin’s Tree of Life

  , Part 1 / October 10, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Pheromone-sensing gene evolved over 400 million years ago

  October 10, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• “Undeniable” author Doug Axe on the recent “directed evolution” Nobel for chemistry

  October 10, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Light-loving cyanobacteria found, improbably, nearly 2,000 feet underground

  October 10, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Çatalhöyük, a window on life 9,500 years ago

  October 9, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder shares her self-doubts about exposing nonsense in cosmology

  October 9, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Zircons are back, as a possible source of information re early Earth and origin of life

  October 9, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Fewer galaxies have formed since the Big Bang than should have

  October 8, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Researchers claim to have discovered genes re the “meaning of life”

  October 8, 2018 / Uncommon Descent